TechCrunch

2018-02-17T22:24:05.000000000+00:00
Never ask a wireless engineer working on the NYC subway system “What can go wrong?” Flooding, ice, brake dust, and power outages relentlessly attack the network components. Rats — many, many rats — can eat power and fiber optic cables and bring down the whole system. Humans are no different, as ...

2018-02-17T19:30:57.000000000+00:00
The nation state has survived wars, plagues, and upheaval, but it won’t survive digital nomads, not if people like Karoli Hindriks have something to say about it. Hindriks is the founder of Jobbatical, a platform that allows digital nomads to find work in other countries and helps with the logis...

2018-02-17T18:50:08.000000000+00:00
French startup Sqreen recently launched a Security Hub with dozens of plugins to put you in control of the security of your web app. In many ways, it feels like enabling tasks on popular automation service IFTTT. Sqreen participated in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield and Y Combinator’s current ...

2018-02-17T18:10:41.000000000+00:00
Chances are you’ve heard of Google. You’re likely a contributor to one of the 3.5 billion search queries the website processes daily. But unless you’re a venture capitalist, an entrepreneur or a slightly obsessive tech journalist, you may not know that Google, or, more properly, Alphabet, is als...

2018-02-17T18:02:19.000000000+00:00
They say the eyes are the windows to the soul, but physiologically speaking, they’re windows to the brain. RightEye is a startup that looks through that window to detect common but often subtle vision issues resulting from concussions and other brain troubles. Its quick, portable eye-tracking st...

2018-02-17T18:00:05.000000000+00:00
The Gillmor Gang — Keith Teare, Esteban Kolsky, Denis Pombriant, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, February 16, 2018. The Gang catches its breath as cryptocurrency crashes and rebounds, Facebook attacks its stream or does it, while publishers and their aggregators cozy up to a wave of bun...

2018-02-17T17:22:20.000000000+00:00
At the core of Facebook’s “well-being” problem is that its business is directly coupled with total time spent on its apps. The more hours you pass on the social network, the more ads you see and click, the more money it earns. That puts its plan to make using Facebook healthier at odds with its ...

2018-02-17T17:15:31.000000000+00:00
Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos apologized for spam texts that were incorrectly sent to users who had activated two-factor authentication. The company is working on a fix, and you won’t receive non-security-related text messages if you never signed up for those notifications. Faceboo...

2018-02-17T04:57:37.000000000+00:00
It looks like Telegram’s billion-dollar ICO has reached its first milestone after the chat app company raised an initial $850 million, according to a filing. A document submitted to the SEC earlier this week states that the money was raised “for the development of the TON Blockchain, the develop...

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The Next Web

2018-02-17T18:04:19.000000000+00:00
In light of recent events, the importance of financial privacy has become an increasingly unavoidable issue for cryptocurrency users. With the exception of anonymous cryptocurrencies, the lack of privacy measures on most leading public blockchain networks is a real cause for concern. Bitcoin, Rip...

2018-02-17T17:30:51.000000000+00:00
Santiago de Chile is an understatedly cool city. Sure, it doesn’t have the classical buildings of Buenos Aires or the ageless allure of Rio, but what’s lacking in historic charm is made up for with a modernity that achieves being progressive yet unpretentious. This is especially true of its tech,...

2018-02-17T15:17:41.000000000+00:00
For a period of 5 years, China continued to spy on all electronic communications at the African Union’s headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Chinese spy operation continued throughout this period without being detected until some network administrators at the AU’s headquarters discovered it...

2018-02-17T15:00:00.000000000+00:00
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2018-02-17T13:30:10.000000000+00:00
In the early 1980’s, a Danish drummer placed an ad in a California newspaper looking for jam buddies and face-melting thrash metal was born. Over the course of the decade, Metallica built a genre and the world’s most passionate fan base with raw, gritty rock n’ roll. But suddenly the band’s sound...

2018-02-17T09:30:36.000000000+00:00
An adaptable mindset helps you expand your horizon, teaches you to see things from multiple perspectives, and can even show you a bit of the future. Creating such a mindset for yourself can make it much easier to embrace disruption and adapt to it, both in your personal and professional life. An ...

2018-02-17T02:11:02.000000000+00:00
An architectural marvel, perhaps no building sums up the company it contains better than Apple’s “spaceship” campus. The impressive structure houses some 13,000 employees, each contained within barely there walls overflowing with giant panes of glass — some standing as high as 45- feet. The inner...

2018-02-17T00:58:31.000000000+00:00
Glued to the couch, controller in hand, the average teen morphs into an extra from The Walking Dead for about six hours each week. But that’s okay; there are worse ways to kill time than playing PUBG. Besides, gaming has some positives too: it’s been shown to improve hand-eye coordination, ward o...

2018-02-17T00:52:13.000000000+00:00
Twitch this week introduced Rooms, a feature that splits chat into separate sections, thus solving the problem of overcrowded chat. Until now, a streamer’s chat was a single channel, where everyone could pour in whatever bile they like and the only recourse moderators had was to ban or time out t...

2018-02-17T00:09:27.000000000+00:00
Atari recently announced the development of two new cryptocurrencies, Atari Token and Pong Token. If you’re too young to remember the company, the important thing to know is that it was part of a movement to decentralize arcade games. It succeeded then; will it now? The company announced a partne...

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The Verge

2018-02-17T17:15:22.000000000-05:00
Facebook plans to mail out verification postcards through the US postal service to anyone purchasing ads related to US elections, according to Reuters. The postcards will contain a special code that advertisers must provide back to Facebook to prove they’re in the United States.
This new verific...

2018-02-17T15:00:02.000000000-05:00
It’s no secret that voice assistants are a Trojan Horse. You “buy” a voice assistant like an Echo Dot or a Google Home, and you plug it in and give it your Wi-Fi password. But you don’t “own” it like you own a computer. The software is controlled entirely by Amazon or Google or some other company...

2018-02-17T14:35:51.000000000-05:00
AirPods are the best truly wireless earbuds available because they nail the essentials like ease of use, reliability, and battery life. There are alternatives that definitely sound better from Bose, B&amp;O Play, and other. But they often cost more and all of them experience occasional audio drop...

2018-02-17T14:00:02.000000000-05:00
Look at some of the autonomous vehicle concepts, predicting a future of us being able to treat a car as a lounge or work area when we don’t want to actually drive, and you’ll notice one thing: space. By that, I mean the space they take up on the road. Everyone seems to be designing a large, auton...

2018-02-17T13:00:02.000000000-05:00
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been testing out the Nano S 360-degree camera from Insta360. It’s a cute little camera that clicks into your iPhone’s Lightning port and takes 360-degree photos and videos. The camera itself is very compact and can easily be held in the palm of your hand or slipped i...

2018-02-17T12:00:04.000000000-05:00
I finally got around to seeing Wonder Woman last month on my flight back from CES. I know a plane isn’t the best place to watch a movie, but it was very useful for tuning out the strangers who were unfortunate enough to hit it off beside me. I was also glad the film largely ditches the drab, dark...

2018-02-17T11:00:02.000000000-05:00
If you don’t have the day off from work or school, you could be forgiven if you have no idea when Presidents’ Day is. Well, it’s on Monday, and retailers are trying to give people a reason to remember it by offering great tech deals in a number of categories. Best Buy’s Presidents’ Day sale featu...

2018-02-17T09:00:01.000000000-05:00
Last week, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk launched his now-famous red Tesla Roadster into space, atop the first Falcon Heavy rocket. Cameras mounted on the car live-streamed the Starman’s journey for a few hours, giving us some unforgettable shots of Earth before going black. But if you want to know where ...

2018-02-16T20:17:46.000000000-05:00
Facebook this evening clarified the situation around SMS notifications sent using the company’s two-factor authentication (2FA) system, admitting that the messages were indeed caused by a bug. In a blog post penned by Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos, the company says the error led it ...

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Re/code

2018-02-17T18:44:09.000000000-05:00
Social platforms are an effective tool for marketers — and nation states who want to disrupt an election. We’ve known for more than a year that Russian actors used social media to try and influence the 2016 presidential election.
Now we know more about those campaigns, thanks to a lengthy indict...

2018-02-17T16:30:08.000000000-05:00
“The Fake News Media never fails,” Trump added. President Donald Trump found an unlikely ally in his mission to convince the internet that Russia’s attempts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election didn’t actually help get him elected: Facebook advertising executive Rob Goldman.
Goldman, Facebook’...

2018-02-17T14:30:23.000000000-05:00
Poke’s failure was a huge turning point for Snapchat. Snapchat is one of Facebook’s greatest threats, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may be partly to blame.
That’s one interesting theory presented in a new book about Snapchat — “How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story” — that c...

2018-02-17T12:00:04.000000000-05:00
Executives, investors and rapper Chamillionaire explain what tech products they can’t quit and how they unplug. In a special episode of Too Embarrassed to Ask, we set out to get some insights on tech addiction from people in the media and tech industries: Specifically, the attendees from Code Med...

2018-02-17T09:00:02.000000000-05:00
The founder of the communications app is worth about $4.5 billion. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel sold roughly 2.7 million shares of stock last week, worth more than $50 million, which is his first personal stock sale since Snap went public last March.
The sale, which was executed as part of a pre-arran...

2018-02-17T08:00:03.000000000-05:00
Her new book is “Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times.” On this episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn talks about her new book, “Forged In Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times.”
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2018-02-16T15:13:35.000000000-05:00
Read special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment. Want to know how Russia used Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms to try to swing the 2016 U.S. Presidential campaign for Donald Trump?
You’ll find many of the details in U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller’s 37-page indictment against 13 ...

2018-02-16T12:50:59.000000000-05:00
Her new book is all about the bro culture of Silicon Valley. On this episode of Recode Decode, hosted by Kara Swisher, Bloomberg Technology executive producer Emily Chang talks about her new book, “Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley.” One goal Chang feels Silicon Valley should...

2018-02-16T11:00:05.000000000-05:00
Adam Brotman has joined the apparel retailer as president and chief experience officer. Adam Brotman, a longtime Starbucks executive who helped mold the Seattle coffee giant into one of the most technologically advanced retailers, is leaving the company after nine years for a top role at J.Crew.
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2018-02-16T09:08:40.000000000-05:00
Plus, Coinbase drains the bank accounts of some crypto customers, a history of the NDA, and how she cracked Facebook’s algorithm and tortured her friends. Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is moving to Los Angeles from San Francisco and has considered scaling back his involvement with Silicon Vall...

2018-02-08T05:20:49.000000000-05:00
A new tech salary report released by jobs site Hired.com indicates that companies in tech hubs such as Los Angeles and Austin are quietly raising salaries to become more competitive.

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Gizmodo

2018-02-18T00:10:00.000000000+00:00
Saturday, February 17th marks the 5,000th local day (sol) of operations for NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover, which was originally designed to last for just 90 sols after its January 2004 landing date, but has instead continued to set milestones like completing a marathon-length tour of its surround...

2018-02-17T22:40:00.000000000+00:00
Facebook and Donald Trump, two large, terrible sons of our broken society that truly deserve each other, slow-motion collided on Saturday when the president decided to lift wholesale a new line of defense over the ongoing Russian election scandal from the social media giant’s vice president of ad...

2018-02-17T22:00:00.000000000+00:00
Today, Hasbro unveiled Haslab, which promises to basically be the toymaker’s answer to Kickstarter, for diehard fans of its toys. The new crowdsourcing program is kicking off with one hell of a project: a 4-foot long, 14lbs intricate recreation of Jabba’s Sail Barge from Return of the Jedi.Read ...

2018-02-17T20:30:00.000000000+00:00
In the 25 years since Power Rangers first began, it’s only skipped adapting the current Super Sentai series three times. Now, for its 2019 season, Power Rangers is going back and bringing one of them to western audiences: Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters.Read more...

2018-02-17T20:30:00.000000000+00:00
A freak helicopter crash in Mexico killed 13 people Friday after they sought safety in a field following a 7.2 earthquake. The Associated Press reports a military helicopter surveying the damage from the earthquake crashed into a field of people who set up camp to avoid being inside should the sh...

2018-02-17T19:55:00.000000000+00:00
After reports hit the news that over 130 of the more-or-less-randomly-promoted angry teens in the White House were working without full security clearances as of November, including top aides with access to highly classified intel like Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s administration...

2018-02-17T16:26:00.000000000+00:00
AUSTIN—Looking at a Pablo Picasso painting could be confusing itself. But scientists using x-rays have revealed secrets behind both paintings and sculptures of the famed artist.Read more...

2018-02-17T16:20:00.000000000+00:00
Within days of picking up a Tesla Model 3, a Reddit user was involved in a wreck that promoted the unfortunate user name Model_3_Crash_Dummy. Fortunately, the driver and the passenger weren’t seriously injured, but the Model 3 is toast. But after the owner of the Tesla noticed a few strange thing...

2018-02-18T01:41:27.000000000+00:00
The US National Labor Relations Board says Google fired the author of a controversial diversity memo not to silence a dissenter, but over "unprotected discriminatory statements."

2018-02-17T19:11:16.000000000+00:00
Commentary: Art like "Black Panther" overturns stereotypes to reclaim the past and reimagine the future. To understand the film's power, you need to understand Afrofuturism.

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ReadWrite

2018-02-16T21:31:42.000000000+00:00
Drones are a perfect example of how our technology has evolved and will continue to grow in the future. So, what exactly does it offer? For casual users, it is just a fun toy. However, drones have use cases in multiple fields, including safety, health, and industry. Until now, drones have gone on...

2018-02-15T20:09:40.000000000+00:00
As a specialist in predictive maintenance applied to the automotive sector CARFIT announces a partnership with VINCI Highways. Our latest product, CARFIT PULS, is a new connected vibration sensor marketed with a toll transceiver from VINCI Highways, to allow drivers to be better informed about th...

2018-02-02T18:24:16.000000000+00:00
Facial recognition technology has finally begun to enter the science fiction landscape we had all dreamt it would soon do. Thus, today we’re witnessing a rapid change and growth in its innovation and implementation. This change in pace is attributed to the significant advances in machine learning...

2018-01-31T23:40:00.000000000+00:00
An Internet of Things (IoT) solution offers a multitude of business benefits from decreased operational costs to new revenue streams. But it also comes with a host of security considerations, including an ever-changing array of regulatory compliance requirements, demanding expert navigation and a...

2018-01-26T07:46:13.000000000+00:00
Competition has begun heating up as to who will be the first one to operate a fleet of fully autonomous vehicles, as demonstrated again by recent announcements from General Motors (GM) and Uber. However, a lot of work is still needed to allow such vehicles to roam freely throughout our city cent...

2018-01-22T22:43:46.000000000+00:00
CARFIT and CEA have signed an agreement to create a joint laboratory focused on Artificial Intelligence related to car vibrations and their interpretation. The lab will bring together teams from the List, a CEA Tech Institute, and from CARFIT to share knowledge and expertise. The joint lab will b...

2018-01-22T21:55:40.000000000+00:00
Global enterprises will spend more than $7 trillion dollars in the next four years as they struggle to modernize, build a global technology foundation for growth, and support simple, secure, and reliable access to data and services, says the IDC. The big drivers? The usual suspects like cloud ini...

2018-01-19T04:40:19.000000000+00:00
Transportation will never be the same once our machines know how we feel. We are all entering a wholesale, global disruption of the way people move from one place to another. More than any other change in this sector, the one that is likely to have the most significant impact on human society is...

2018-01-17T01:18:41.000000000+00:00
The next technology revolution is underway. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning coupled with more robust and competent devices is driving transformation across industries and workstreams, from small farms in India to huge corporations in the United States. So what kinds ...

2018-01-14T01:02:09.000000000+00:00
Technology has disrupted every industry including healthcare, business, finance and others. Healthcare remains the fastest to adopt technological changes to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of the body. When we talk about the Internet of Things (IoT), it offers a multitude of benefits su...

2018-02-17T22:37:45.000000000+00:00
It's been far easier for Elon Musk to send a rocket to the Mars than move a pebble in Washington, D.C.
That could be changing, according to The Washington Post. The SpaceX entrepreneur's tunnel digging company, The Boring Company, recently received vague permission to do some exploratory digging ...

2018-02-17T21:19:14.000000000+00:00
Pubic hair is making a beautifully punk comeback, and it's long overdue.
The last time the fashion world did anything of significance with women's pubic hair was in 2015 with vajazzling. Thankfully, fashion designer KAIMIN broke the dry spell at the latest New York Fashion Week with a runway show...

2018-02-17T20:51:45.000000000+00:00
A federal agency has found that Google was well within its legal rights to fire James Damore in 2017.
The company dismissed its former engineer after he wrote a paper arguing that woman aren't as biologically equipped for leadership roles as men. Damore filed a complaint with the National Labor R...

2018-02-17T20:27:51.000000000+00:00
Actor Sally Field is not shy about landing her son a date, even if it involves completely revealing his Olympic crush to the entire world.
"Find a way," Field told her son Sam Greisman after he revealed to her that his Olympic crush was USA figure skater and internet heartthrob Adam Rippon. But ...

2018-02-17T18:42:57.000000000+00:00
On Friday, Twitter announced that it would be shutting down work on its Mac desktop app, to the dismay of, err, no one.
Users have 30 days, starting on Feb. 16, before the app will no longer be supported, Twitter said.
SEE ALSO: How I cleaned up my embarrassing Twitter history
"We're focusing our...

2018-02-17T18:39:07.000000000+00:00
One lucky pup found compassiom in a most unlikely place: The New York City subway.
Dakota, aka Loppy the dog, was playing with her dog walker at a park in Brooklyn on Friday when the pooch managed to escape. Frightened, the poor pup ran to a place that she knew — the Jay St. station — and ended u...

2018-02-17T18:05:50.000000000+00:00
On Friday, President Donald Trump visited Parkland, Florida in the wake of a school shooting in a high school that left 17 people dead. But Trump has faced criticism over the way he carried himself during that visit.
After an awkward meeting with first responders, the president and first lady Mel...

2018-02-17T17:00:00.000000000+00:00
It's hard to say who among the incredible cast of characters in Black Panther reigns supreme. But if you ask this writer, there's be no question: Shuri, T'Challa's 16-year-old sister and badass princess of Wakanda, deserves to be crowned queen of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Aside from h...

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MacWorld

2018-02-17T04:00:00.000000000-08:00
Put on your very serious face because it’s time to discuss Apple’s very serious problem.Writing for the Forbes contributor network and home for wayward children with tongues stuck to cold metal objects, Ewan Spence has all the news that’s fit to doom.“Apple's Serious Image Problem With The New iP...

2018-02-16T12:11:00.000000000-08:00
We absolutely fell in love with the new 10.5-inch iPad Pro when we reviewed it back in June, calling it “one of the best Apple products ever made.”If that kind of quality sounds impressive but you’d like to have an even larger screen, B&amp;H is currently offering the 2017 12.9-inch Wi-Fi-only 25...

2018-02-16T05:00:00.000000000-08:00
Apple has long had robust networking support in macOS, allowing many different kinds of network interfaces to be connected at once, including multiples of the same kind (like ethernet), network adapters plugging into to interfaces (like ethernet over Thunderbolt and ethernet over USB-C), and mult...

2018-02-16T04:00:00.000000000-08:00
Traveling is a great chance to put technology through the wringer. It’s a time when you have to be economical about the gear you carry, when your environments challenge you, and when you start seeing places where your devices could go further and do more than they already do.Last week, my girlfri...

2018-02-16T03:00:00.000000000-08:00
You already know you can change Siri's voice on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. So it stands to reason that you can make Siri sound different on HomePod, too. You have similar voice options on HomePod, but you find the settings in a different place.If you want to give Siri on HomePod a man's voice or ...

2018-02-15T14:39:00.000000000-08:00
Updated 02/15/18:The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Carpool Karaoke is coming back for a second season.Apple is said to be spending as much as $1 billion over the course of 2018 on original TV programming. That's a lot of TV! It's not the $8 billion Netflix is going to spend, but it's still...

2018-02-15T11:00:00.000000000-08:00
Siri sounds great. It’s one of the more natural-sounding virtual assistants, and she’s full of personality, too.She? Is Siri a “she?” It doesn’t have to be! Siri’s default voice is female, but you can make Siri sound male, too. You can even give her three different accents: American, British, and...